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Tranquility Tackles Founders’ Anxiety
After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general public in the new year.
TranquilityOnline aims
Hotspot Expands into Ontario
HotSpot, the Fredericton company whose app allows for easy transportation payments, has established its first beachhead outside Atlantic Canada with a service for Peterborough, Ont.
The announcement Friday of a new service for metered and
Bahr-Gedalia In WXN Hall of Fame
Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, has been named a Top 100 Award Winner in KPMG’s Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women event. It is the fourth year in a row she has made the list and so has
SIA Aims To Help Hospital in Haiti
Bo Simango is $70,000 away from deploying new technology that could improve the efficiency, security and safety of a hospital in Haiti, a developing country still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake.
Simango is the Co-Founder and CEO of
Dal Doubles Computer Science Women
Dalhousie University has doubled the number of women entering its computer science program, fulfilling a commitment it announced in 2017 in celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary.
Female enrolment numbers are now 144 percent higher than
Panag To Be Sold for up to $27M
Halifax-based Panag Pharma, which is making pain-relief products from natural compounds found in cannabis plants, has agreed to be bought for as much as $27 million by Ontario’s Tetra Bio-Pharma.
Based in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, Tetra is a
17 Startups Tap Innovacorp Programs
Innovacorp has awarded a total of $725,000 to 17 different companies under its Accelerate Program and Start-Up Yard Cohorts.
The Nova Scotia Crown corporation last week revealed the winners of the two programs, which provide non-dilutive funding,
BreatheSuite Preps 30-Person Test
BreatheSuite is about to launch a 30-person test of its new inhaler technology, whose purpose is to ensure people use common inhaler devices correctly.
BreatheSuite is a new company based in St. John’s that has developed software and hardware that
Event for Tech Cos Keen to Expand in U.S.
Fredericton's entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) have announced a lunch-and-learn event for scaling tech companies interested in learning how to scale and expand in the U.S.
In a panel format, expert
Dal Hosts Techstars Startup Weekend
This weekend, Dalhousie’s entrepreneurship centre Launch Dal will host its annual Startup Weekend.
This event, the 13th, pledges to help entrepreneurs take steps toward creating a business, becoming a founder, and connecting with the right people
CarbonCure Enters the Asian Market
CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax CleanTech company, is moving into the Asian market with a strategic partnership with Pan-United Corp., the leading concrete and cement company in Singapore.
They announced the deal Sunday, saying the Singapore
More Diversity in St. John’s Startups
Genesis, the St. John’s startup house affiliated with Memorial University, has been on a mission to increase diversity among the companies it supports. And it’s generating some data that highlight its success.
For a few years, CEO Michelle Simms
